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The Secrets of playing guitar, Now!

Want to learn play songs on your Guitar in less than a day? Check out Mark's website . I am not kidding here! He's got no fancy website but has some amazingly simple videos / mp3s teaching you to play. Mark will get you started with a few songs in a jiffy. Guitar beginners' Heaven ! Strongly recommended!!!

Chapter 7: Thrillers

I believe I can fly We saw the last of Williams that day. We skipped breakfast and hurried to get back to GC. The reason being a helicopter ride over the Canyons which we were eager to take. On our way, we noticed it had snowed last night and we were lucky to see a white outfield. We reached the airport to get the ride but it turned out to be the wrong one. At this pitstop, we even had a snowfight! Those who stayed in the car were forced to come out when they were targeted :) After playing for a while, we realised we were getting late for the helicopter ride and all of us hurried back in the van to again search for the airport. The right one, this time! The chopper people gave some initial instructions to better prepare for our adventure. We got an awesome helicopter, a 7-seater - perfect for us! And we even got to see both North and South rims of the Canyons. It was spectacular! Hoover Dam After the ride, we hurried back to Las Vegas as Dsu, Kokate, Korade had to leave that night. Plu...

Beetle

" Can you tell its a CG car? Look carefully there's more than meets the eye." (source: TheMichaelSmith )

Chapter 6: Quick Grand-a-view Canyons

The Grand Canyon We left Williams after having omlettes and Cowboy-Coffee for breakfast at a downtown diner. For the first time, I saw speed limits of 75mph in USA. Nice to be "officially" above 70! When we reached the point where we could see the Grand Canyon, Pal and Dsu ditched us to be first to see the GC. We were still searching for parking but found one spot at some distance ahead. So, it was a little further from the actual point to see the view. While heading towards the point, we actually found this *spot* which was about 50 feet inside the Canyon. Instead of going to the point, we explored a 360-degree view from over the spot. We ditched the ditchers this time! Sorry, no tip for you! Our entire day went by sight-seeing the Canyons. Sunset part was really beautiful but it was chilly enough NOT to enjoy it! By the time we were done with the *tour*, we were really hungry. We decided on a decent restaurant with some fine wining-n-dining. To serve us, we had a wierdo wa...

The "Breakable" Touch

Its very rare that I make trips to my office on a weekend. This is a story about one of those days. I came to office on Sunday afternoon. There was not a single soul on my section of the floor. It felt odd doing work without the chatting, typing noise and the smell of your neighbors' lunch-food (or was it the smell of their farts). So, to make my life more interesting, I thought of making some strong espresso coffee shots. Not that I am addicted to caffeine but occasional coffee is great to have. So, I head down to the break-room, freshly grind some coffee , put the coffee in an espresso "spoon" (don't quite know what its called) and fix it in the espresso machine. I press the coffee button and vola, my coffee is getting brewed. Nothing special about this here except for the fact that I was kinda doing this for the 1st time (2 half-hearted attempts to use it had failed earlier). So, once I have my cup-ful of coffee, I try to remove the espresso "spoon" from ...

My Gujarati Soul

Karmacy 's 'Blood Brothers' video - Its brilliantly funny! Funny cuz its a Gujju hip-hop!!! Brilliant cuz it looks so professional and sincere!!! ;) If you are a Desi, you'll giggle and enjoy it (probably even laugh your ass off)! And if you are a FOB, you'll even relate to it! Or if you are a ABCD, you'll sing it! But ofcourse, if you are a Gujju, you'll understand it! :)